Doe Quotes - Page 61

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.

You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

If [Moroccans born in Holland] commit serious crimes - I believe we should strip them indeed of the Dutch nationality and send them back to Morocco as Morocco does.

That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

If you own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. 1/3rd of the world does not have access to even one.

The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.

A program that has not been tested does not work.

Being a lady does not require silence.

Everything God does is love -even when we do not understand Him.

It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.